[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxaa-TkR8Tw?rel=0&w=560&h=315] (a 16 minute video) I wanted to do this topic as a video so that you can hear my tone of voice and see facial expressions and body language. Conflict is difficult. Confronting our husbands’ sin respectfully is hard. I want to try to give you all the tools I can on this.… Continue reading Confronting Our Husbands about Their Sin – VIDEO
Category: Christian Marriage
Respecting Our Husbands as Fathers – Part 2
For Part 1, please click here. CHILDREN LEARN SUBMISSION TO GOD-GIVEN AUTHORITY FROM THE WAY THEIR MOTHERS TREAT THEIR FATHERS I was shocked. Our children IMMEDIATELY began to be so much more respectful to both of us. It scared me. I finally saw that they imitate my submission to Greg – my words, my… Continue reading Respecting Our Husbands as Fathers – Part 2
Respecting Our Husbands as Fathers – Part 1
Here is one Christian husband’s response to this post earlier in the week: Thank you for this post. Your advice is spot on! The thing that I want from my wife is input and cooperation, not demands, domination, manipulation or deception. The former draw me to her, the latter drive me away from her. I… Continue reading Respecting Our Husbands as Fathers – Part 1
How Disrespectful Was I?
I had a talk with Greg this past week and, out of curiosity, asked him if he would rank my level of disrespect earlier in our marriage on a 1-10 scale with 10 being the MOST DISRESPECTFUL wife he had ever seen. He said, “You were probably about a 4 or a 5.” I knew… Continue reading How Disrespectful Was I?
Ambition and Being “Driven” Can Be Good – If…
Nothing is wrong with a woman being ambitious and driven – provided that she is ambitious and driven in obeying God, submitting to Him and living in His power for His glory. If a woman is ambitious and driven to do things HER way, not God’s way and disobeys God’s commands for her as a… Continue reading Ambition and Being “Driven” Can Be Good – If…
A Wife Begins to Find Healing for Her Insecurities about Body Image
For our precious sisters in Christ who don’t yet know their beauty and worth and who are struggling, may God heal your heart and mind and flood your soul with His peace, joy and truth! FROM THE WIFE WHO ASKED, “HOW COULD A HUSBAND LOVE HIS WIFE, AND BE VISUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER WOMEN?” Wow. This… Continue reading A Wife Begins to Find Healing for Her Insecurities about Body Image
I Would Love to Hear Your Stories about Honoring Your Husband As a Father
Father’s Day is coming up in America in about a week or so. I would love to spend a few days talking about how we can honor and respect our husbands as fathers. I may use your comment anonymously in a post (or possibly in my book) if you share. Ladies, Would you please share… Continue reading I Would Love to Hear Your Stories about Honoring Your Husband As a Father
If You Insist on Being “in Charge” – He Figures You Can Protect Yourself
Many wives want to know why their husbands don’t protect them from his family or other extended family during conflicts. I know every situation is different, and I can’t begin to address every possible scenario and there can be many very complex factors involved. So I will only be able to speak in generalities here… Continue reading If You Insist on Being “in Charge” – He Figures You Can Protect Yourself
Spiritual Authority Class Notes
These are part of my class notes from a class at our church on The Pre-eminance of the Doctrine of Spiritual Authority, that Rev. H. Weaver has allowed me to share. Please click here for the notes in their entirety. He addresses husbands and wives here. This is a fantastic foundation for us all to understand… Continue reading Spiritual Authority Class Notes
Submitting to Our Husbands in the “Small” Things
FROM A HUSBAND (his response to a question for husbands earlier last week): As to respecting me in “small things”, I have to assume you mean things that aren’t all that important. My first thought is, that if it isn’t all that important, why not? I don’t always know why I prefer one thing, over another.… Continue reading Submitting to Our Husbands in the “Small” Things